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ajyotirmayon KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

You missed out on the Plasma5 transition. It surprises me how no one eyed Gnomr for the mess Gnome 3 was. Gnome 40 is a mess as well, trying to reinvent the UX.

But KDE's desktop gets criticized for what it was when it tried 3D graphics at a time when Qt wasn't ready.

ajyotirmayon KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

If the hardware is really old to not br able to support animations properly, just disable those animations. Transparency effects can be disabled as well. Everything. It is by far the lightest and most efficient DE

ajyotirmayon Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone

IMO, you can ditch a smartphone and still keep using the services. I normally keep such services on my laptop, and I just open one up when I need to use one.

It's a middle ground. I can't completely get rid of a smartphone because I'm into motorcycle touring and GPS is essential to me. I'm trying alternatives to Gmaps, but it's pretty awkward and uncomfortable.

One thing that I've done is no notification tone, and I've disable notifications for whatever selected IM apps I've got on my phone

ajyotirmayon Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone

I don't think so

ajyotirmayon The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

Yes, it has been bugging me a lot. My SWAP space remains empty, and my RAM runs out of space. And that situation is frustrating because I can't close my applications or even restart display server to clean up memory.

Something needs to be done here for real, otherwise Linux is a nice software

ajyotirmayon Ask HN: How do I get my first job as a developer?

Thanks :)